Organizational Behavior in Education: Leadership and School Reform

Basic Approach
For students taking courses in educational administration and leadership.

An authoritative and timely examination of organizational behavior and how leaders can create effective school cultures.

Well-established as a standard textbook in the preparation of effective and thoughtful school administrators, Organizational Behavior in Education continues its tradition of offering students of educational administration the most current thinking and the most in-depth exploration of organizational leadership as it relates to decision-making, organizational change, managing conflict, and motivating others. As readers are challenged to develop and analyze the successful implementation of school reform, they gain a professional understanding of the organizational theory and research that are the bedrock of modern practice.

The thoroughly revised tenth edition of Organizational Behavior in Education updates the research and theory behind organizational effectiveness in schools as it pertains to change, leadership, and new issues in school reform including comprehensive school reform models, charter schools, and school vouchers. This new material contains current emerging developments in the fast-paced world of contemporary school reform and keeps students abreast of emerging trends.

List of contents

Preface
Educational Leadership Policy Standards: The New ISLLC Standards For 2008
ISLLC Functions By Chapter
CHAPTER 1: In Search of a Vision
Critical Incident: The Vision For South Shore High School
ASSUMPTIONS, BELIEFS, BEHAVIORS
THE NATURE OF SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS
IMPACT OF BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE
Psychoanalytic Psychology
Sociological and Psychological Points of View
Cognitive Psychology
Social Psychology
Field Theory of Behavior
SCHOOLS AS EDUCATIVE ORGANIZATIONS
Organizational Theory
Theory Defined and Described
Two Major Perspectives on Educational Organizations
Bureaucratic Theory
Human Resources Development Theory
Theory X and Theory Y
THE RELEVANCE TO SCHOOL LEADERSHIP TODAY
VISION AND EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP
THE NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND ACT OF 2001
RESEARCH IN EDUCATION
The Framingham Heart Study
The Tennessee STAR Study
Research and NCLB
LEADERSHIP AS COACHING
Coaching as a Method of Teaching
CONCLUSION
REFLECTIVE ACTIVITIES
SUGGESTED READING
 
CHAPTER 2: Guiding Concepts of Practice
Critical Incident: Controversy at the Principals’ Meeting
TWO PRINCIPAL SOURCES OF CONFLICT
The “Great Debate”: Traditional versus Progressive Education
The Beginnings of the Great Educational Debate
The Backlash of the 1950s
The Neoprogressives Emerge in the 1960s
THE CONTEMPORARY DEBATE ON SCHOOLING
A PARADIGM SHIFT IN EDUCATION
A Passion for Equality
The Traditional Paradigm of Intelligence
A New Paradigm of Intelligence or the Lake Wobegon Syndrome?
MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES THEORY
Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Theory (MIT)
Perkins’s Learnable Intelligence Theory
Smart Schools
Emotional Intelligence
Sustainability: The Debate Continues
Sustainability
THEORY OF ACTION
THEORY OF PRACTICE
THE GAME PLAN: A COACHING METAPHOR
CONCLUSION
REFLECTIVE ACTIVITIES
SUGGESTED READING
 
CHAPTER 3: Mainstreams of Organizational Thought
Critical Incident --A Philosophical Disagreement on Administration
ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
Organization and Behavior
Why Study Organizational Behavior?
IMPACT OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Frederick W. Taylor and Scientific Management
The Beginning of Modern Organizational Theory
Emergence of Bureaucratic Organizational Theory
THE RISE OF CLASSICAL ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY
Scientific Management versus Classical Organizational Theory
Organizational Concepts of Classical Theory
Classical and Neoclassical Administrative Concepts
THE HUMAN RELATIONS MOVEMENT
The Western Electric Studies
Sociometry
Behavior Patterns in Groups
Leadership as a Group Function
The Paradox of Organizational Structure
THE ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY MOVEMENT
Human Relations and Organizational Behavior
CONCLUSION
REFLECTIVE ACTIVITIES
SUGGESTED READING
 
CHAPTER 4: Organizational Theory
Critical Incident: A Tale of Two Principals
ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND PEOPLE
General Systems Theory
Social Systems Theory
A Contextual Approach
ROLE THEORY
Role Conflict
Role Ambiguity
Role Set
Functional Roles in the Group
Role Related to Social Systems Theory
Equilibrium
Homeostasis
Feedback
SOCIOTECHNICAL SYSTEMS THEORY
CONTINGENCY THEORY
Rational Planning Models
Open System Related to Contingency Theory
Response to Technological Change
Interaction with the External Environment
Contingency Theory and Organizational Behavior in Schools
CONCLUSION
REFL

Summary

Basic Approach
For students taking courses in educational administration and leadership.
An authoritative and timely examination of organizational behavior and how leaders can create effective school cultures.
Well-established as a standard textbook in the preparation of effective and thoughtful school administrators, Organizational Behavior in Education continues its tradition of offering students of educational administration the most current thinking and the most in-depth exploration of organizational leadership as it relates to decision-making, organizational change, managing conflict, and motivating others. As readers are challenged to develop and analyze the successful implementation of school reform, they gain a professional understanding of the organizational theory and research that are the bedrock of modern practice.
The thoroughly revised tenth edition of Organizational Behavior in Education updates the research and theory behind organizational effectiveness in schools as it pertains to change, leadership, and new issues in school reform including comprehensive school reform models, charter schools, and school vouchers. This new material contains current emerging developments in the fast-paced world of contemporary school reform and keeps students abreast of emerging trends.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Owens, Robert G. Owens, Thomas Valesky, Thomas C Valesky, Thomas C. Valesky
• Publisher: Pearson Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2013
• EAN: 9781292041322
• ISBN: 978-1-292-04132-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 216 mm x 279 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 667 g
• Series: Pearson; Pearson
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system